Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
William Stewart, active 1847–1856, British
Title:
Interior of an Academy: The Critics
Date:
1848
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
32 x 24 1/2 inches (81.3 x 62.2 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed in brown paint, lower right: "Wmstewart [...]"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.604
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
wrestlers | dog (animal) | Parthenon | education | sketchbook | coats | trousers | palette | crates | paint box | casts | plaster casts | statues | drawing | painting (visual work) | busts | sketches | tables | frieze (entablature component) | paints | plaster | students | ancient | Greek | boys | interior | Roman | school | sketching | critics | art | academy
Currently On View:
On view
Exhibition History:
In a New Light: 500 Years of British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-04-01 - 2026-01-30)

Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11)

Noble Simplicity and Silent Greatness - Neoclassical Art from 1700 - 1900 (Yale University Art Gallery, 1991-04-26 - 1991-09-29)
Publications:
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 214-215, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1072